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Solidarity with the process, because if he's got bad apples he doesn't want them either, he wants his city to be safe. >> it's true. it's an astute observation. what we're seeing is two camps, the first says justice delayed is justice denied the second camp says this is a rush to justice. nobody wants that. >> that's justice denied. >> justice denied as well absolutely. >> everybody is talking about was it legal or illegal that knife and my question -- >> that's the only question. >> that is my question. >> it isn't the only question. >> the officers' mind. >> if he has a good faith belief tha...

Marilyn mosby in charging six baltimore police officers in in his death. >> the blade of the knife was holded into the handle. the knife was not a switch blade and is lawful under maryland law. >> reporter: which is why mosby is charging three of the six officers with false imprisonment and argues gray should never have been arrested in the first place. but lawyers for arresting officers edward fairnero and garrett miller say she got it wrong and the life was illegal under maryland law, demand the state produce the knife to prove they're right. neither lawyer would speak about pending litigati...

And andy could probably speak better to that. >> andy hop in. >> maryland has a statewide law, the law in all of maryland that says it's illegal to have a switchblade. each jurisdiction baltimore city being one of them can pass its own laws. it says it's not only illegal to have a switchblade, but it's also illegal to have a switch spring-assisted knife. the issue in the gray case is the police that arrested gray officer nero and officer miller they arrested gray and they charge him with the city code violation that says that he had a spring assisted knife. that's in the charging papers and ul...

Challenging the prosecutor in court. officer nero claims the knife gray was carrying was illegal contrary to what the states attorney has said. his lawyers are demanding to see the knife. moz by responded saying the evidence we collected cannot be disclosed, relayed or released to the public before trial. as i have previously indicated, i strongly condemn anyone in law enforcement with access to trial evidence who has or continues to leak information prior to the resolution of this case. these unethical disclosures are only damaging our ability to conduct a fair process. she said in her statem...

Is a spring-assisted knife. again, when you look at maryland's law, this is a legal knife in maryland. there's a spring mechanism inside that when i barly push it it comes the rest of the way open. that's not a switchblade or automatic knife. i don't have to touch the blade to open it. if there were a button here that would be considered an automatic knife and would be banned in maryland. this is a spring-assisted knife. you have to touch the blade to get it open. >> here's the deal. everything that i've read today is that there are certain kind of knives that are legal or illegal in the state...